Production notes: Scenes
103 and 104 are interior sequences which take place at night. For the
production Southern Railway carriage no. 3554 was pulled out of the Museum
of Rail Travel at Ingrow. A scaffold tower was constructed around the
carriage. The tower was then covered with black drapes and the camera was
located outside the carriage, with the camera lens pointing towards an open
carriage window.

Summary of the story: Houewife,49
is an adaptation by Victoria Wood of the real-life diary of Nella
Last, a housewife from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Nella began her diary in September 1939 as a
volunteer for the Mass Observation Archive. The drama charts the lives of
Nella, her family and her friends as the war progresses.

Filming took place at Keighley
station, and featured the characters of Nella List, Cliff Last and Dr.
Brierley.

To allow uninterrupted
filming, normal public services between Keighley station and Ingrow West station
were replaced for the duration of the filming by a heritage double-deck bus from
the Keighley Bus Museum,
Halifax Daimler GJX 331.